There will be approximately twenty weekly quizzes, six or so assignments, two term tests, and a final examination. Quizzes will normally be written weekly in the tutorials and last ten to twenty minutes apiece; assignments will usually be handed out and collected every three or four weeks. The tests will last fifty minutes each and will (tentatively) be written during the weeks of 10 November, 2003, and 2 February, 2004. The final examination will last three hours and will be written during the examination period in April. These items will count as follows towards the final mark:

Plagiarism is an extremely serious academic offence and carries penalties varying from failure in an assignment to suspension from the University. Definitions, penalties and procedures for dealing with plagiarism are set out in Trent University's Academic Dishonesty Policy which is printed in the 2003-2004 Calendar supplement. It can also be found online at:

You are permitted and encouraged to study together and to work together on the assignments, consult any books or other sources you wish, and ask anyone willing (especially the instructor!) for hints, suggestions, and help. However, you must write up all work submitted for credit entirely by yourself, giving due credit to all relevant sources of help and information. No aid may be given or received on the quizzes, tests, and exam, except with the intructor's permission.

Private tutoring by upper-year students (ask your instructor for suggestions).

The Academic Skills Centre, which has an on-line not-for-credit course, Transition to university mathematics, likely to be particularly useful to those who need to brush up on "pre-calculus" mathematics. Please contact the Academic Skills Centre for more information. Academic Skills also has a math instructor, Marj Tellis, who will be available for individual appointments Tue 16:00-19:50 and Wed 18:00-20:50. She is able to provide extra help in math for students in math-based courses in other disciplines, as well as in math courses themselves. Call the Academic Skills Centre at 748-1720 to book an appointment with Marj.

Please check the handout Enjoying Math! for some useful hints on how to proper in first-year mathematics. It's mostly common sense, but that can be an uncommon quality...

You may use whatever calculators you wish. Symbolic computation software such as Maple or Mathematica may also come in handy when doing some of the assignments or to check your answers when studying. On the tests and exam, but not the quizzes, you may also bring one of the following:

an 8.5" by 11" aid sheet, with whatever you want on written on both sides of it; or

a copy of the pamphlet Formula for Success published by Academic Skills, with whatever annotations you like in it.